Culture and Customs of BrazilBloomsbury Academic, 30. juuni 2003 - 195 pages Race, religion, language, culture, and national character are full of contradictions. Brazil, the largest country in South America, embodies so much paradox that it defies neat description. This book will help students and general readers dispel stereotypes of Brazil and begin to understand what country's bigness means in terms of its land, people, history, society, and cultural expressions. |
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... broadcast in the evening . It im- parted government news and propaganda , and promoted national culture . The program has continued in modified form right to the present , trans- mitting information on government business for half an ...
... broadcast in São Paulo on the night of September 18 , and it launched Brazil's first television station , T.V. Tupi , which became the latest part of Chateaubriand's media empire . Since only a handful of Brazilians owned televisions in ...
... broadcast annually for many years , with TV Record taking over the trans- mission . The festivals not only provided a focal point for a whole generation of singers and composers , and gave them huge audiences for their work , but also ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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